Polo Flat waste recycling business 'Scrapyard' has been receiving various charges for unloading commercial waste at the Cooma tip because council has not been able to determine if the waste comes from inside or outside the shire.

The Scrapyard charge was originally $10 a ute load but changed to $110 per tonne earlier this year. However, at council's last monthly meeting on August 11, council decided to charge $33 a tonne for porcelain waste and did not agree upon a charge for other commercial waste material.

The Scrapyard business receives scrap metal and electrical equipment from around New South Wales, which its staff disassemble, process and recycle, with a minute percentage of waste taken to the tip, Scrapyard manager Andrew Thaler said.

Mr Thaler argued that the waste should be charged a flat fee and be defined as commercial waste produced in the shire, as the products were disassembled within the shire.

"Council needs to define what waste is produced inside the shire and what waste comes from outside the shire, they should not be arbitrarily charging people without clear guidelines," Mr Thaler said.

"We bring scrap metal and redundant electrical equipment to the shire, which we disassemble and recycle by selling to foundries to be remelted into new products.

"On a whole we produce less than 10 per cent waste of the material that we handle, which we send to the tip, but waste is produced at our work site, not outside the shire," he said.

"We pay land rates, employ local labour and we all spend our pay in the community.

"So if the council decide our waste is from outside the shire, they should not discriminate, and charge the same rate for everything else produced outside the shire as well, including whitegoods, plastic bags and mattresses, but that might be a little hard to monitor," he said.

The wast committee will make clear guidelines about waste produced inside and outside the shire at a later date.